Press Release

FringeArts Announces Lineup of Free Late-Night Festival Bar Entertainment at New Waterfront Home

FringeArts hosts three weeks of free late-night performances during the 2014 Fringe Festival, Sept. 5-21, beginning Sept. 5 with Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret and members of the Philadelphia Orchestra

PHILADELPHIA — Opening Night of the 18th Annual Philadelphia Fringe Festival (Sept 5, 2014), will launch three weeks of free late-night comedy, theater and music at FringeArts’ permanent home at 140 N. Columbus Blvd. (at Race Street). The late-night lineup will feature local favorites and international performers each night of the 2014 Fringe Festival (Sept. 5-21).

Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret kicks off the late-night celebrations Friday, Sept. 5 at 11:30 p.m., with a special performance featuring members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

“FringeArts’ Late Night will present exciting, wild, unpredictable performers you’ll see nowhere else. The Fringe’s late-night lineup and Festival bar have always been a hub of social and artistic activity during the festival ­— this year that creative energy finally has a permanent home,” says Nick Stuccio, FringeArts’ president and producing artistic director.

Along with Philadelphia favorites like the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training and the Wilhelm Brothers, featured late-night performers include New York-based, self-proclaimed “best rapper in the world, ” Champagne Jerry (aka Neal Medlyn, whose work has appeared at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, the Andy Warhol Museum and Dance Theater Workshop); gender-blending, “drag terrorist” Christeene, called by Spin Magazine “like (a) manic combination of Alice Cooper and Hedwig (of the Angry Inch)”; and virtuoso Israeli cellist Maya Beiser, currently on national tour for her new album “Uncovered.” Beiser has been described by The Boston Globe aspossessing “virtuoso chops, rock-star charisma, and an appetite for pushing her instrument to the edge of avant-garde adventurousness…the post-modern diva of the cello.”

The schedule of free late-night performances is below. For the most up to date information visit FringeArts.com.

11:30 p.m.: El Malito and the 33rd CenturyTraveling through wormholes to bring you party music.

Sept. 17:FRINGEARTSSTAGE11:30 p.m.: Adrienne Truscott is Asking For It“Pantsless and breathless, Truscott bares her body and soul in an event that straddles the gap between performance art and comedy show.” (The List, Edinburgh) Adriennetruscott.com

Sept. 19:FRINGEARTSSTAGE10:00 p.m.: Eleanor Bauer: Bauer HourVariety show from the Brussels-based American choreographer and performance-maker.

FringeArts supports artists and brings the world’s newest and most cutting-edge cultural experiences to Philadelphia, amplifying the vibrancy of the city as a renowned cultural center and an unparalleled place to live, work and visit. Founded in 1997 and formerly known as the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe, the organization serves local, national and international artists of all disciplines and levels of achievement through an annual 18-day Festival along with a year-round series of high-quality contemporary dance, theater and music performances; commissioned public art installations; and a residency program that continues to expand and grow as a state-of-the-art incubator for artists. In 2013, FringeArts opened the doors to its brand-new waterfront headquarters in Old City Philadelphia.